One [Video]: In Which Klaus Demands Answers

[myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com]

[Suddenly, a video feed clicks on. The image is blurry and moving sporadically: this video is clearly accidental.]

--pears to be some sort of... oh.

[The image stabilizes somewhat. It reveals itself to be the face of an older man with absolutely ridiculous hair, looking very Perplexed but altogether Intrigued.]

Interesting. I assume this is some manner of recording or communication device, then. And if you press --

[The feed clicks off suddenly, and then returns a few seconds later.]

-- relatively simple, all things considered. If only the buttons weren't so deucedly small... but it will have to do.

I am Baron Klaus Wulfenbach and, if anyone is listening, I would like some answers. A cursory investigation of this place has made it painfully obvious that I am very, very far from my homeland and, it appears, my place in relative space-time. I would like an explanation from someone more familiar with this universe as to where I am, when I am and, perhaps, the general history of this city. It is discomfiting enough to be removed from one's home when one is in the middle of attempting to stop a war; it is far worse to be removed to somewhere that one knows nothing about. Thus, I require information, if you please, and quickly.

[And he'll just stay on the damn phone until someone answers him, too. How long can you resist that Imperious Stare, Prospero?]

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[myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com]

... Right. I suppose I can accept that. I have seen stranger, after all. What you are suggesting is that there is a rift opened in spacetime at midnight every night which pauses the time in this reality in order to allow another reality precedence?

It would make sense, I suppose. Two realities cannot both exist in motion at the same time while bleeding into each other. One would have to be stagnant or the feedback would destroy both...

[Cough] At any rate. As to the monsters... I have fought monsters before. What are yours like?

[soulsborderline.livejournal.com]

Wow. I hadn't even thought of it that way...that's like something Dr. Akagi would say, only half as long.

Anyway, they're basically black blobs that take certain shapes when you get close. They attack anyone that's still walking around at midnight, which is to say, us with the phones. A couple of good whacks with an axe will usually take one down, but they tend to swarm, and some of them can do weird stuff like shoot fire or ice.